White light sources based on multiple precision selective micro-filling of structured optical waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 15700-15708

  Canning, J ^a   Stevenson, M ^a   Yip, T K ^a   Lim, S K ^a   Martelli, C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT SOURCES; LUMINESCENCE; OPTICAL FIBERS; WAVEGUIDES;

COMPOSITE PROPERTIES; GREEN LUMINESCENCE; LUMINESCENT DYES; MULTIPLE MATERIALS; NEW APPROACHES; SIMULTANEOUS CAPTURES; WHITE LIGHT; WHITE LIGHT SOURCES;

LIGHT;

COLORING AGENT; CRESYL VIOLET; OXAZINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER; LIGHT; LUMINESCENCE; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; PHOTON; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

COLORING AGENTS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INTERFEROMETRY; LASERS; LIGHT; LUMINESCENCE; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; OPTICS; OXAZINES; PHOTONS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 54749123284     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.015700     Document Type: Article

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